This dictionary example aged well.

#Watergate

What happened to the Australian Strategic Oil Reserve that Gus set up … in the US? Or the $80m Eastern Australia Agriculture water entitlement rights linked to him via the Caymans? Seriously, no slush fund should be left lying around anywhere near him or the LNP. #watergate #auspol #ausvotes2025

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:q6ckvwwrzs4mxx6zou4wp2n4/post/3lmhj25az3c26

If #Bezos or his ilk owned #WashingtonPost back in the #Nixon era, Nixon would have never resigned. The reporting on #Watergate would have been in the DC Metro page and hardly anyone would have noticed.

Same today with the #HandsOff protests, closeup photos not showing anywhere near the massive number of people or the huge banners they brought with them.

What a piece of shit he is.

Say what you will, the "-gate" suffix has really stuck around since that 'third-rate burglary' happened in the halcyon days of my youth. Never forget!

"The arrests on Monday mark a development in what local media has dubbed as the "Qatargate'' — an investigation probing potential foreign influence, national security breaches and political misconduct."
https://www.dw.com/en/top-advisers-to-netanyahu-arrested-in-corruption-case/a-72100829

#nomenclature #Watergate #PoliticalScandals

In the U.S.A., whenever there is a political scandal with a president, we add "gate" to the end of a word to describe the scandal because of the name of the Watergate hotel where the then President's men committed crimes on his behalf in the early 1970's.

It has been more than 50 years that we have stuck with this odd tradition. I wonder if it will actually ever stop. I wonder how many young people actually get the connection now, and how many think that the Watergate scandal had to do with water.

#Watergate
#SignalGate
#GateGate

That night, Deep Throat seemed more talkative than usual. “There is a way to untie the Watergate knot,” he began. “I can’t and won’t give you any new names, but everything points in the direction of what was called ‘Offensive Security.’ . . . Remember, you don’t do those 1500 [FBI] interviews and not have something on your hands other than a single break-in. But please be balanced and send out people to check everything, because a lot of the [CRP] intelligence-gathering was routine. They are not brilliant guys, and it got out of hand,” Deep Throat said. “That is the key phrase, the feeling that it all got out of hand.”
—from Bernstein and Woodward, "All the President's Men"

#uspol #history #Watergate

𝗧𝗨𝗧𝗧𝗜 𝗚𝗟𝗜 𝗨𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗜 𝗗𝗘𝗟 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗘
Un gran film, ma il reboot...

>> https://rospeinfrantumi.altervista.org/tutti-gli-uomini-del-presidente/

#tuttigliuominidelpresidente #robertredford #washingtonpost #watergate #impeachment #remake #reboot #reality (?) #bigcompany #bigtech #lacche (con l’accento grave finale)

© 2025, roberto speziale, Alla mensa del re

𝗧𝗨𝗧𝗧𝗜 𝗚𝗟𝗜 𝗨𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗜 𝗗𝗘𝗟 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗘
Un gran film, ma il reboot...

Vi ricorderete certamente quel film ormai diventato un classico: “All the President’s Men”, con Dustin Hoffman e Robert Redford nei panni dei giornalisti d’inchiesta Carl Bernstein e Bob Woodward.

#leggitutto >> https://rospeinfrantumi.altervista.org/tutti-gli-uomini-del-presidente/

#tuttigliuominidelpresidente #robertredford #washingtonpost #watergate #impeachment #remake #reboot #reality

© 2025, roberto speziale, Alla mensa del re

Hegseth & Waltz should resign or be fired. www.newsweek.com/will-pete-he... I also think the other 15 people in that #Signal texting meeting need to resign as well. This is far worse than the Nixon Tapes #WaterGate #YemenGate

Will Pete Hegseth resign over ...

I wasn't planning on being here today (detoxing alla the Trump carp) & what a boon to come in as The Atlantic exposes major national security FUBAR in #Signal. Wow. Way bigger than The Nixon Tapes. #Watergate #Coupgate #Yemengate #coup #frauds #law

Und weil es so spannend ist, schaue ich mir nun nach der Doku den Film “Die Unbestechlichen" an.

#Watergate #Skandal #POTUS #Nixon

Ich habe zwar schon viel und oft vom #Watergate-#Skandal gehört, aber zu meinem Beschämen nie wirklich gewusst, worum es da eigentlich ging. Nun... allen, den es genauso geht wie mir, hier ist eine spannende und ausführliche Doku über dieses interessante Thema. Und nebenbei, es ist so aktuell wie eh und je!

#POTUS #Nixon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfeX75kVxXU

Words, culture, and metaphors for power

I've long suspected that the Chinese, with a millennia-long history of hydrologic civil engineering projects might have a language of power which borrows from water control structures (dams, gates, levees, bridges, etc.). Some time afterward I realised that Latin certainly does, and retains at least one descriptor in pontifex maximus, that is, "bridge builder in chief", first applied to Rome's emperors, now its Pope. And I've very recently learnt that Vietnamese language and culture have many words with shared roots in water, including the word for "mother".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42036781

Listening to another David Runciman lecture again (climate / conspiracy), I'm realising that there's another metaphor which has been lodged in Western political discourse for the past half-century, though it had slipped my awareness and is perhaps a bit of a cheat as it comes from a proper name rather than a description. But still:

Watergate.

Edit: Tyop.

#china #hydraulics #WaterPowerMetaphors #metaphor #watergate

Watched "Becoming Katharine Graham" last night. What a titan of journalism! She is sorely missed these days, that's for sure. 📰

Disappointed to find out that "All The President's Men" left her out almost completely. "The Post" rectified that a bit. Kudos to Warren Buffett for getting her props with this doc. Now to check out her memoir "Personal History". 📖

@Slate

https://slate.com/culture/2017/12/the-post-puts-katharine-graham-back-in-the-washington-posts-history.html

#JasonBailey #KatharineGraham #WaPo #Journalism #Watergate

Ist es eine Verschwörungserzählung oder ist der gewählte Präsident der USA tatsächlich nur ein nützlicher Idiot des Kreml? Noch sind die Hinweise nicht ausreichend. Aber auf der anderen Seite sehe ich keine andere Erklärung für das Agieren von Trump. Es ist eine Aufgabe für den Journalismus, den Hinweisen nach zu gehen. Es würde #Watergate weit in den Schatten stellen - natürlich.
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/donald-trump-was-recruited-by-the-kgb-under-codename-krasnov-claims-former-soviet-spy-chief/

I would venture this is the lowest day (in the teenage life of the spotty brat called #America) since #Watergate. Your so-called "#President" is a #Russian ASSet

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-81-22825?utm_medium=email&r=waowb&triedRedirect=true

Now that you are grieving about #JeffBezos & the #WashingtonPost:

How about taking the opportunity to start a #reader-owned #newspaper #cooperative or an #audience-owned #media cooperative!?

Plenty of examples exist; several of them in #Germany alone.

I'd very much be interested to partake.

🏷️ #WaPo #Bezos #AllThePresidentsMen #JonathanCapeheart #BobWoodward #CarlBernstein #Watergate #Nixon #Trump #MAGA #HowFascismWorks #Amazon #ElonMusk #MarkZuckerberg #Musk #Zuckerberg #Distributism #Coop

@grumble209 Close to the truth, What has Putin got on Trump. Not the missing #watergate tapes? #JFK assassination or just a smutty blue film shot in his sauna?